Should Juan Pablo Montoya have defended his Mexico City title?
Juan Pablo Montoya's bump 'n', no let me rephrase, wreck 'n' run on his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Pruett highlighted the weekend in Mexico City last year. Unfortunately, the Colombian driver decided to relish one of his scarce Sprint Cup off-weekends.
Montoya has every right to savor his time off, but the race in Mexico City is designed to attract more Latino fans. Montoya is the top Latino driver in the world, all apologies to Adrian Fernandez. His apearance in this race would have really verfiied to the NASCAR world that this race was important, and that it has a future. Now there are whispers of scratching this race of the Nationwide Series agenda.
Love him or hate him, Montoya is a dang good driver, and provides plenty of excitement wherever he is on the track. Instead, Kyle Krisiloff is driving the second Chip Ganassi Racing entry.
Also absent from the Mexico City race is hometown favorites Jorge Geoters and Carlos Contreras. Canadian driver Ron Fellows is without a ride as well.
Kyle Busch is contemplating running a full Nationwide Series schedule. That would be bad news for Clint Bowyer and Carl Edwards. Bowyer and Edwards are expected to battle amongst themselves for the Nationwide title. If Busch were to run the full sked, it would throw a monkeywrench into the plans of Bowyer and Edwards.
